Healthy Recipes for Kids - Homemade Baby Food:  Make your own homemade baby food for your kids. Try out these baby food recipes for smoothies!  As soon as your toddler can suck through a straw and/or drink from a cup, baby food smoothies are a tasty and incredibly simple way to serve healthy fruits.  Baby food smoothies are just purees, and there's no cooking involved!   

You can make your own baby food smoothies so easily that you really don't need to follow a recipe.  Just toss some fruit into a blender.  Consider all the baby food healthy recipes you can create by adding foods like: baby cereal, oatmeal, yogurt, milk and more!  Use fresh fruit that is getting too ripe to make baby food smoothies, rather than adding ice to your baby food.  Simply cut it up, pop it into the freezer, and use it in baby food smoothies later on.  Baby Food smoothies are great when your toddlers are teething, since they do not require chewing. 

Baby Food Recipes: Constipation Relief Smoothie

• 1 ripe pear
• 1/2 cup watermelon chunks
• 1 tbsp blueberries

If your toddler gets constipated, you can make this baby food smoothie for him or her and it does the trick!  The water content in the watermelon usually is enough that you don't need to add water.  However, if it is too thick, add a bit of water until you reach the desired consistency.

Baby Food Recipes: Berry Good Smoothie

• 1 tbsp blueberries
• 1 tbsp raspberries
• 1/4 banana
• 1 teaspoon yogurt
• 2 tbsp milk (or rice milk, juice etc.)

These healthy recipes make a small, toddler-sized baby food smoothie.  Adjust the consistency by adding more liquid: milk, rice milk, water, juice or whatever you normally give your child as a beverage. You can create your own unique homemade baby food recipes by adding cereal and grains, too!

***Please note that there can be potential allergy issues when introducing new foods to your baby or toddler. When in doubt, contact your pediatrician.

Baby Food Ideas

13 Fun Finger Foods to Try:

0. Steamed veggies (sweet potato sticks, peas, carrot sticks)
0. Grated soft cheese
0. Large curd cottage cheese
0. Tofu chunks
0. Soft cooked legumes
0. Soft ripe fresh fruit, like banana, peach, papaya, demembraned orange
0. Soft cooked fruit like apple chunks, pear slices
0. Hard cooked egg yolk
0. Ripe avocado
0. Toast sticks
0. Mini-muffins
0. Cooked pasta shapes
0. Stale bagels for teething

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Easy Homemade Baby Food & Children's Recipes  
Kids love to cook! With these easy recipes they'll make healthy treats, have fun, too!

Frozen Bananas
1 banana
2 Popsicle sticks
Optional items
Honey, toasted wheat germ, shredded coconut, peanut butter

Peel and cut in half, one firm, ripe banana. Wrap in plastic and freeze. When frozen and ready to eat dip in peanut butter or honey. Top with coconut or wheat germ.

Easy Breakfast Bars

2 cups granola
2 eggs beaten
dash of vanilla for sweetening
Combine granola and eggs in a bowl. Spread into a 8" square pan. 
Bake at 350 for 15 min. Cut into bars. 
Serve with peanut butter, honey or jam.
Kids like these with banana slices and honey on top!

No Bake Peanut Butter Balls

1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup honey
1 cup crushed corn flakes cereal
2 tablespoons powdered milk
Set corn flakes aside. 
Mix all other ingredients well.
Roll into balls.
Then roll again in Cornflakes until covered.
Refrigerate leftovers.
This is a yummy snack that's great with milk!